Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.  505





       Martha Taylor sworne in open Court sayth That the shirt wch John Liber F F
      Ellis stole from John Cuily, The sd Cully hath it againe, And further
      sayth That the shirt was afterwards fownd neere the howse where
      the sd Ellis lyueth.
       The Jury went out.

              The Court adiorned for an howre.

                    The Court mett againe
     prnt Philip Caiuert Esq Chancelor Willm Euans
         Mr Baker Brooke    Mr Thomas Trueman

       The Petite Jury Returnes & bring in their Verdicts (Vizt)
          On the Presentmt of Thomas Clank (Guilty)
          On the Presentmt of John Ellis (Not Guilty)
       The Jury dismissed, & all the other Jurors

       Zachary Wade sworne sayth, That Elionor the wife of Edmund
      Lindsey is ready to bee brought a bed being uery greate Wth Child,
      Hee Lying att tht howse on Wednesday was seauennight last.
       Daniel Johnson sworne sayth That Elionor the wife of Edmund
      Lindsey is uery neere her time to bee deliuered, And thereuppon uerily
      beleiues shee cannot come downe to this Court.

       Thomas Bennett Came into Count & acknowiedgeth a ffine to James
     Strowd & the heyres of the sd James, of the one halfe or moiety of
     Three hundd Acres of Land, That is to say one hundd & ffifty Acres
     Lying or being in New Towne hundd, on the west side of the Herring
     Creeke att the mouth thereof Commonly knowne by the name of
     Smootes Plantoon.

     The Court adiorned by the Chancelor till Munday Morning 9 a Clock/
         Munday 16 Octobr 1665. All prnt as formerly on Saturday. [p.96]
      HenryHaneptf      .
             Respited till next Prouinciall Count
     Jonathan Sybrey deft

      Thomas Gerard plf The pIfs Petn being Read & the Deed or Lease
      Richard ffoster deft therein mentioned produced in Court, The deft
      in answere prefers this following Petn

     To the honble the Gouernor & Councell of the Prouince of Maryland
         in Prouinciail Court assembled.
       The humble Petn of Rich: ffoster deft agst Tho: Gerard Corn
      playnt sheweth, That whereas the Complaynt by his Deed bearing
      date the 20th day of ffebruary in the yeare of Our Lord God 1647